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Vasa (Swedish flagship that sunk on its maiden voyage in 1628 after sailing 1300 m)
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Wasn't this ship withering away from exposure to the air or something? Did they find a fix for that?
Edit: the wood is impegnated with sulfur, cause of poluted water. One of the reason it was preserved so well on the bottom of the sea. The sulfur reacts with the air, making sulfuric acid. They have not found a fix for that. So it continues to break down.
The Mary Rose in Portsmouth, UK is kept in a giant container and sprayed with sea water to maintain the same conditions as when it was under the Solent. They raised it after a comparable amount of time underwater.
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https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Rose
Apparently they dried it out in a controlled way between 2013-2016, but it was sprayed with water and then special chemicals for a while.
Oh nice I didn't realised they'd gotten rid of the glass container now, I might have to go see it again